ONP: Romeo and Juliet
ONP: Ромео и Джульетта
Four love duets, a fiery waltz and luminous, lyrical music: the entire score seems to tremble with desire and freshness.
Actors
Romeo
Benjamin Bernheim
Juliette
Mercutio
Tybalt
Frère Laurent
Stephano
Lea Desandre
Crew
Conductor
Carlo Rizzi
How many composers have been inspired by the two lovers of Verona depicted by Shakespeare? From Vincenzo Bellini and Hector Berlioz to Leonard Bernstein, the list is long. If Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, first performed during the Universal Exhibition of 1867, enjoyed immediate popularity, it is doubtless because this is the version that translates the tumultuous lives of the celebrated lovers with the greatest finesse. Four love duets, a fiery waltz and luminous, lyrical music: the entire score seems to tremble with desire and freshness. Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, reputed for his audacious re-readings of Shakespeare, to celebrate this hymn to youth? Following his Eliogabalo by Cavalli in 2016, he signs his second collaboration with the Paris Opera.
Language
French
Runtime
3 hours 25 minutes, with one interval
2023
16+
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